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'Covering every base': Analyst warns Trump's latest order 'more dangerous than it looks'
A PRETEXT FOR WAR UPON AMERICAN CITIZENS:
'Covering every base': Analyst warns Trump's latest order 'more dangerous than it looks' - Rawstory
Progressive YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen discussed Trump's executive order targeting the left-wing group Antifa on the latest episode of his podcast, "Brian Tyler Cohen." The order was signed shortly after the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was killed during a speech at a Utah university earlier this month.
The Trump administration and MAGA influencers were quick to denounce Kirk's killing as an example of left-wing terrorism, even though law enforcement officials have offered scant evidence tying the alleged shooter to an extremist left-wing group.
"He's covering every base he can here," Cohen said. "And if he's not going after you personally, he is doing everything he can to have a chilling effect on anyone even thinking about speaking out."
"Trump wants this executive order to focus not on a specific group, but rather on an amorphous idea," Cohen added. "Why? Because then he can bunch anybody he dislikes into this group. It is expressly because Antifa isn't a real thing that he can say that someone he doesn't like is part of Antifa."
The Trump administration and MAGA influencers were quick to denounce Kirk's killing as an example of left-wing terrorism, even though law enforcement officials have offered scant evidence tying the alleged shooter to an extremist left-wing group.
"He's covering every base he can here," Cohen said. "And if he's not going after you personally, he is doing everything he can to have a chilling effect on anyone even thinking about speaking out."
"Trump wants this executive order to focus not on a specific group, but rather on an amorphous idea," Cohen added. "Why? Because then he can bunch anybody he dislikes into this group. It is expressly because Antifa isn't a real thing that he can say that someone he doesn't like is part of Antifa."
MEANWHILE, NOT SO COINCIDENTALLY:
Trump tells Hegseth to use inner cities as military 'training grounds' for war - Rawstory
In an unprecedented speech to top military brass on Tuesday, Trump said that American inner cities were "a big part of war now."
"It seems that the ones that are run by the radical left Democrats, what they've done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, they're very unsafe places, and we're going to straighten them out one by one," (he) asserted. "And this is going to be a major part for some of the people in this room. That's a war too. It's a war from within."
"It seems that the ones that are run by the radical left Democrats, what they've done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, they're very unsafe places, and we're going to straighten them out one by one," (he) asserted. "And this is going to be a major part for some of the people in this room. That's a war too. It's a war from within."
So (of no surprise to some of us) he's in effect mobilizing the military against U.S. citizens he considers "antifa" (i.e. "radical left Democrats." )
Dementia? No, crazy like a fox. Adolf would be proud.
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... there is no identifiable Antifa group. It will be a term applied to anyone they want.
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